Intel ISEF 2016 Award Winners and Results

By Bashir

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

 

(Intel ISEF 2016 Award) Intel Corporation and the Society for Science & the Public today announced the name of top 3 winner in International Science and Engineering Fair:

Austin Wang, 18, of Vancouver (center) , Second Winner Kathy Liu, 17 (left) and Third Winner Syamantak Payra, 15 (right)

1. First Winner: Han Jie (Austin) Wang, 18, of Vancouver, Canada,

Award Name: Gordon E. Moore Award and US$75,000

2. Second Winner: Syamantak Payra, 15, of Friendswood, Texas,

Award Name: Intel Foundation Young Scientist Awards of US$50,000,

3. Third Winner: Kathy Liu, 17, of Salt Lake City, Utah,

Award Name: Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award of US$50,000
 “Intel congratulates this year’s winners and hopes that their work will inspire other young innovators to apply their curiosity and ingenuity to today’s global challenges,” said Rosalind Hudnell, vice president in Human Resources, director of Corporate Affairs at Intel Corporation, and president of the Intel Foundation. “This international science and engineering exhibition is an excellent example of what can be achieved when students from different backgrounds, perspectives and geographies come together to share ideas and solutions.”
In The 2016 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair more than 1,700 young scientists short listed and selected from 419 affiliate fairs in 77 countries, regions and territories. Beside top winners, approx 600 finalists received awards and prizes for their innovative research, including 22 “Best of Category” winners, who each received a US$5,000 prize. The Intel Foundation also awarded a US$1,000 grant to each winner’s school and to the affiliated fair they represent.

BELOW IS THE LIST OF THE 22 BEST OF CATEGORY WINNERS, FROM WHICH THE TOP THREE WERE CHOSEN FOR 1^ST, 2^ND AND 3^RD WINNER AWARD:

S.#	Category	First	Last	City	State/Country
1	Animal Sciences	River	Grace	Melbourne	Florida
2	Behavioral and Social Sciences	Rajeev	Jha	Honolulu	Hawaii
3	Biochemistry	Edward	Kim	Waco	Texas
4	Biomedical Engineering	Luiz	da Silva Borges	Aquidauana	Brazil
5	Biomedical and Health Sciences	Jiwoo	Lee	Hackensack	New Jersey
6	Cellular and Molecular Biology	Marissa	Sumathipala	Ashburn	Virginia
7	Chemistry	Kathryn	Lawrence	Boulder	Colorado
		Katherine	Younglove
8	Computational Biology and Bioinformatics	Swetha	Revanur	San Jose	California
9	Earth and Environmental Sciences	Natalie	Bush	Baton Rouge	Louisiana
10	Embedded Systems	Syamantak	Payra	Friendswood	Texas
11	Energy: Chemical	Kathy	Liu	Salt Lake City	Utah
12	Energy: Physical	Tiasha	Joardar	Plano	Texas
13	Engineering Mechanics	Takahiro	Ichige	Chiba City	Japan
14	Environmental Engineering	Wyatt	Pontius	Sterling	Virginia
15	Materials Science	Nicky	Wojtania	Plano	Texas
16	Mathematics	Pei-Hsaun	Chang	Taipei City	Chinese Taipei
17	Microbiology	Han Jie (Austin)	Wang	Vancouver	Canada
18	Physics and Astronomy	Camille	Yoke	Richmond	Virginia
19	Plant Sciences	Dennis	Drewnik	Winnipeg	Canada
20	Robotics and Intelligent Machines	Simone	Braunstein	New York	New York
21	Systems Software	Charles	Noyes	Villa Park	California
22	Translational Medical Science	Brennan	Clark	Golden Valley	Minnesota
		Prashant	Godishala

Intel International Science and Engineering Fair is the world’s most promising student scientists, inventors and engineers event. Finalists are selected annually from hundreds of affiliated fairs from the world (different countries, region and terrorist).
Their projects are then evaluated and examined on-site by 1,000+ judges from nearly every scientific discipline, each with a Ph.D. or the equivalent of six years of related professional experience in one of the scientific disciplines from the world renowned universities and institutes.
The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair 2016 is funded jointly by Intel and the Intel Foundation with additional awards and support from various others corporate, academic, governmental and science-focused organizations and companies.

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